Sula by Toni Morrison

genus genus genus genus genus Sula by Toni Morrison, is a book about a bleak female and the various events throughout her keep. The majority of these events were at the fault of Sula, still because of her past she did non know, or could not understand any better. Sula became the woman that she was because of the people and events that were around her during her childhood. When Sula was a child, she grew up faster than virtually children because of the things that she saw and heard, so it was almost as if she had a loss of childhood. When Sula was only(prenominal) three years old, her father died.Although this may not have had a direct effect on Sula because of how young she was, her m some other, Hannah, was left without a economize and with an unquenchable thirst for maleness (Bukisa). This passion for workforce led to Hannah having many affairs with diametric men but never building real relationships with them. Sula, being as curious as any child, often watched these inte ractions, or at least saw the aftereffects of these interactions, and tacit that her mother found pleasure in men. Another contingency during Sulas childhood involves her listening in on one of her mothers conversations.One day Sula heard Hannah tell roughly other woman that she issue Sula, but that she did not uniform her. Hannahs comments about not liking her do Sula begin to depend about love. These thoughts of love were her first real interaction with adulthood (Sparknotes). Hearing her mother say this made Sula realize that she could not count on anyone except herself (Begnal). Sula realized that love was not what she thought it was, and it made her feel insecure, but secure at the same(p) time. She knew that her mother would not distributor point loving her, but that love was not the same thing that she had once believed it to be (Sparknotes).A three traumatic event that occurred during the childhood of Sula was the death of Chicken Little. Sula and Nel were out playin g come near a lake, when a boy named Chicken Little showed up. Nel teased him, but instead of joining her companion to tease Chicken Little, Sula defended him. Sula then began to swing Chicken Little around playfully. Unfortunately, Sula lost her hold on Chicken Little, and he went flying into the lake and drowned. The death of Chicken Little farther drove Sulas loss of childhood innocence because it showed her how quickly life can be taken (Sparknotes).The immortality that most children believe they have, was then gone from Sula. She never even bothered to tell anyone what she did because, instinctively, she knew that society would misunderstand the incident and blame her for Chicken Littles death. Another death Sula experienced while growing up was that of her mother, Hannah. Hannah to a faultk a nap and dreamt about a red bridal dress. She tried to get her mother, Eva, to interpret the dream for her but before Eva was able to, a young Sula distracted her. Later, Eva looked out her windowpane just in time to see Hannah getting ready to jump into a fire.Eva jumped out of her second story window in order to try to save her daughter, but it was too late. When Eva looked up, she saw Sula standing there, observance everything happen. This event holds extreme significance in Sulas life transformation into a woman for multiple conditions. First, Sula looked as if she were genuinely interested in the burning of her mother, almost as if she had enjoyed it. She was not concerned with legal transfer her mother, but she just wanted to watch what was going on. Secondly, it made her naan resent her, because in some managements she felt that Hannahs death was Sulas fault.Because Sula distracted her from interpreting Hannahs dream, she was unable to stop Hannah from killing herself (Sparknotes). Her grandmother was the only family that she really had left, and because Eva resented her, it forced Sula to grow up even more rapidly. Sulas relationship with Nel was som e other major factor in her maturation into a woman. Sula and Nel were like each others support systems (Bukisa). end-to-end their childhood, Nel always supported Sula and vice versa, even though they were extremely different.Nel was conservative and brought up in a relatively stable home by a proper, lady-like, mother, the way their society expected, while Sula was raised in a home where people constantly came and went, by a mother who slept with different men on various occasions. These two comp permitely different worlds were what drew these two young girls to each other (Bukisa). They were opposite in more than just their upbringing. Sula was rougher and tougher than Nel was, but her emotions were also inconsistent. Nel, on the other hand, was quiet, and normally had a steady emotion (Bukisa).It was as if these two girls were each one half of the same whole, making them inseparable. During their childhood, they shared everything, including boyfriends. All of these factores cont ributed to Sulas personality and actions as an adult. Sula as an adult had problems with love, recognizing boundaries, and commensurate in. Sula lacked the ability to love because of her family, mainly her mother. Hearing Hanna say that she loved Sula but did not like her made Sula believe that love was something that was forced upon people, instead of a choice.Sulas personality was much too independent to be forced to do anything, so she decided not to love at all. The close together(predicate) she ever even came to love was with a man named Ajax, but he eventually left her which did vigor but assure Sula that she should not love. Evas resentment of Sula also convinced Sula that love was not an emotion worth pursuing. If her own family could not love her, then there was no reason for her to love anyone, including her family. Her boundaries issue was also caused by her mother, but Nel contributed to it as well.Her mothers contribution was brought about in the way she slept with t he husbands of wives around the community. Seeing her mother have no respect for the affixation between a husband and a wife, Sula began to think that it was all right for her to do the same. Sulas relationship with Nel was a cause of this boundary issue as well. Because Nel and Sula had shared virtually everything throughout their lives, Sula believed that that would never change. She thought that her and Nels bond was never going to change no matter what happened or what they shared.This thought process led Sula to sleep with Nels husband during a moment of weakness and then act as if everything would be suddenly fine. Once Sula realized that Nel was mad at her she was confused because she thought that they could share anything (Schmoop). Sulas third issue, of fitting in, was not one that she was too concerned about. Also related to her childhood, Sula had seen that fitting in was not necessarily the correct way to live. Watching her mother as a child, Sula saw that life was co mpletely enjoyable even while living(a) outside what society considered to be acceptable.Sula lived with no regrets and did not care what anyone thought of her. Ten years after leaving home, Sula returned to trim her grandmother ,Eva. During their conversation, Eva brought back memories of Hannahs death , so Sula put her into a nursing home. Even though society looked upon this action as being cruel, Sula did not see it as being so, and did not care that society did (Sparknotes). As flawed as Sula was, she never surrendered to falseness or fell into the trap of conventionality in order to keep up appearances or to be accepted by the community.As Morrison notes of her, She was completely free of ambition, with no affection for money, property or things, no greed, no go for to command attention or compliments ? no ego (Cliffsnotes). The women of the community hated her particularly because she was living criticism of their own dreadful lives of resignation (Cliffsnotes). She refuse d to settle for the traditional role that most women in her communtiy had, so they felt threatened and saw Sula as a witch (Begnal). being seen as a witch would bother the average person, but because Sula did not care about fitting in, she plainly brushed it off.As an adult she showed less emotion than she did as a child because to her, emotions were just a something to occupy time (Sparknotes). Sulas transformation into a woman is a remarkable result of her upbringing. The way she let nothing get to her, and did not change for the next person, can all be explained by discernment her adolescence. She was, in a way, a direct result of her environment. From her loss of childhood and her friendship with Nel, came the woman that she was on the day that she died, unbothered.